civil rights movement timelime

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  • civil rights

    Civil Rights Act of 1875 signed.

  • Strauder v. West Virginia

    In Strauder v. West Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that African Americans could not be excluded from juries.(date not said)

  • huckleberry finn

    Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published, featuring the admirable African-American character Jim.(date not said)

  • wells

    Ida B. Wells publishes her pamphlet Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.(date to said)

  • becoming literate

    30,000 African-American teachers had been trained and put to work in the South. The majority of blacks had become literate.(date not said)

  • meeting

    First meeting of the Niagara Movement, an interracial group to work for civil rights.

  • national negro committe

    The National Negro Committee meets and is formed; it will be the precursor to the NAACP.

  • the great migration

    The Great Migration begins and lasts until 1940. Approximately one and a half million African-Americans move from the Southern United States to the North and Midwest. 1916-1940. (no date said)

  • the march

    35,000 Ku Klux Klan members march in Washington, D.C.

  • 4 medals

    Sprinter Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

  • forced to confess

    In Chambers v. Florida, the Supreme Court frees three black men who were coerced into confessing to a murder.

  • air combat

    U.S. Army forms African-American air combat units, the Tuskegee Airmen.(early 1941)

  • college funds

    The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.

  • morgan v virginia

    In Morgan v. Virginia, the US Supreme Court invalidates provisions of the Virginia Code which require the separation of white and colored passengers where applied to interstate bus transport. The state law is unconstitutional insofar as it is burdening interstate commerce – an area of federal jurisdiction

  • sweatt v painter

    In Sweatt v. Painter the Supreme Court rules that a separate-but-equal Texas law school was actually unequal, partly in that it deprived black students from the collegiality of future white lawyers.

  • bus problem

    Supreme Court strikes down segregation on buses nationwide.

  • defeat for nixon

    John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election

  • interracial marriage is unconstitutional.

    In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional.

  • death of a hero

    Dr. Martin Luther King is shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee.

  • the bombing

    Bombing of MOVE house in Philadelphia.

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